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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on NZ red meat exports bringing in more revenue · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed Be
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  Speaker 2: So what's happened is that today Michael Riddell has written
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  Speaker 2: a blog. Now, if you know Michael Riddell, he was
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  Speaker 2: a former RB and Z staffer. He writes a pretty
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  Speaker 2: well read blog called Croaking Cassandra. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: around Wellington and Economics read this. He wrote today that
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  Speaker 2: he had had somebody who is an arbien Zed', a
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  Speaker 2: Reserve Bank staffer, had gone touch anonymously and given him
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of information. And what the person had said
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  Speaker 2: is that the reason that Adrian Or eventually quit was
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  Speaker 2: because he had and there's a a bunch of events
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  Speaker 2: happened in the lead up to it. He'd had a
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  Speaker 2: meeting with Treasury on the twenty first of February and
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  Speaker 2: he'd completely lost his call, behaving in a way that
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  Speaker 2: was completely inappropriate and swearing, and that he had then
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  Speaker 2: done exactly the same thing, or roughly the same thing
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  Speaker 2: in a meeting with the Finance Minister Nikola Willis on
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fourth of February, and then on the twenty
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  Speaker 2: seventh of February, three days later, Neil Quickley, as the
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  Speaker 2: board chair, sent an email to Adrian Or which had
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  Speaker 2: attached quote statement of concerns outlining outlining quite a specific
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  Speaker 2: range of concrete and specific issues with the governor's behavior
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  Speaker 2: covering several years, and not about funding. Quickly is reported
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  Speaker 2: to have asked Or to respond, this was my correspondent says,
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  Speaker 2: what triggered Or's resignation. Now, the reason, apparently, according to
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  Speaker 2: this that Neil Quickly can't answer questions about it is
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  Speaker 2: because there was an exit agreement which included gag provisions
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  Speaker 2: of some sort. Now, please do not get the impression
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  Speaker 2: is that Neil Quigley is the bad guy in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Very much Adrian Or is the bad guy in this situation. However,
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  Speaker 2: Neil Quickly's handling of it has definitely left a lot
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  Speaker 2: to be desired. Because it is one thing to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and say, look, I can't talk about it,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot talk about it, I cannot talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: It is quite another thing to misrepresent the situation by
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  Speaker 2: then going it was a personal decision in the way
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  Speaker 2: that every decision that you make to reside is a
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  Speaker 2: personal decision, and we all know it's not actually a
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  Speaker 2: personal decision. If it is as this corresponden says about
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  Speaker 2: his behavior, it's actually a behavioral decision. Six twenty one
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  Speaker 2: Now Jamie McKay, Host of the Countries with Me, Jamie.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Good, I Heather cousin, Heather Good to have you back. Hey.
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  Speaker 4: That Michael Radal by the way, has written, I would say,
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  Speaker 4: a wickedly one sided piece in the Listener on our
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  Speaker 4: best and worst finance ministers since the Second World War.
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  Speaker 4: And I think he's been very tough on Bill English,
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  Speaker 4: who's lumbered down the bottom with Grant Robertson and Robert Muldoon.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know what his political leanings are, but
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  Speaker 4: all the best finance ministers, according to him, come from
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  Speaker 4: the Labour Party.
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  Speaker 2: Oh who was the best? Did he say?
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  Speaker 3: Roger Douglas?
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  Speaker 2: Well can you can you actually argue against that?
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  Speaker 3: Jamie? Well he was. He was a change agent. I'll
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  Speaker 3: give him that.
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  Speaker 4: And farmers have a lot to thank Roger Douglas for,
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  Speaker 4: believe it or not, But unfortunately they stopped for a
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  Speaker 4: cup of tea and Roger.
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  Speaker 2: Not his not his fault, that was David's fault, because
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  Speaker 2: David Good, David got right, was the second best Finance
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  Speaker 2: Minister Michael Cullen.
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  Speaker 3: No, he was third best. Walter Nash.
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  Speaker 4: Walter Nash of course, great grandfather of future New Zealand
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  Speaker 4: first candidate Stuart Nash.
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  Speaker 2: Well there you go, Okay, listen, talk to me about
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  Speaker 2: the red meat experts. What's going on here? Is it
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  Speaker 2: the US still loving our burgers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Hey, can I just get a shameless plug?
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  Speaker 4: And I know you're going to cut me off, but
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  Speaker 4: Nikola Willis is currently meeting with Miles Hurrell and I've
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  Speaker 4: just watched the six pm news she got or not
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  Speaker 4: she Miles Hurrell got breathlessly doorstopped by Mikey Sherman from
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  Speaker 4: One News accusing him of or Fonterra, of hiking up
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  Speaker 4: the price of butter, etc. I just want to add
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  Speaker 4: some balance to this story. Open Country Dairy, our second
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  Speaker 4: biggest dairy company. The chief executive, Mark Delatour, was on
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  Speaker 4: my shows last week.
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  Speaker 3: Here. They're building a new butter factory.
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  Speaker 4: It's about to open an August and the wyecaddow guess
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing with one hundred percent of their butter?
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  Speaker 3: What exporting it?
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  Speaker 4: Because they can make more money overseas than they can
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  Speaker 4: here domestically. So we've got to stop barking at cars
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  Speaker 4: on this one and just realize that the high butter
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  Speaker 4: prices are due to international commodity prices, not Fonterra ripping
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  Speaker 4: anybody off. It's not Fonterra's job to subsidize the market.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff, Hey, Jamie, thanks very much, Jammy McKay, Hosts
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  Speaker 2: of the Country. By the way one News, not only
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  Speaker 2: did they do all stop Miles Hurrell as he was
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  Speaker 2: walking into the meeting for the you know, walking to
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  Speaker 2: the be High for the meeting with Nikola Willis, but
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  Speaker 2: they also then went live to Mikey Sherman with one
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  Speaker 2: of those banners underneath her and it said Fonterra meeting underway. Now, Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I feel like the Finance Minister will be
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  Speaker 2: wildly regretting having ever told us that she's calling them
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  Speaker 2: in for a Please explain on the price of butter,
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  Speaker 2: because we this thing is being hyped beyond what it
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  Speaker 2: possibly can ever result in. And I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: press gallery tomorrow are going to be standing there going
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  Speaker 2: and what are you doing about the price butter? What's changing,
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  Speaker 2: what's changing? What's changing? They're hyping everyone up and you
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  Speaker 2: and I know ain't nothing going to change because the
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  Speaker 2: only way to change it is basically for us to
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  Speaker 2: have the export price for Do we want that?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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